Born too late to remember 9/11 Born too soon to be an iPad kid Born at the right time to explain who Macklemore is to my colleagues

I went to Friends House and no one knew you

'Head of compliance for Reform UK' sounds like either a recurring sketch comedy character or literally a job you would have in a nightmare

Duncan Hames@duncanhames.bsky.social · 19h ago

Richard Tice MP when quizzed by the BBC's Nick Robinson this morning: "Hopefully your viewers will trust that statement from our compliance team"...

Two new IFS reports on justice & policing (respectively) to chew through today. Good quant analysis of the CJS is more elusive than I’d like, so looking forward to having a proper read & hearing from report authors and others at launch event this afternoon :) ifs.org.uk/publications...

Resources and the justice system | Institute for Fiscal Studies

We review the pressures and challenges facing the UK justice system in our mid-grant report for the Transforming Justice programme.

ifs.org.uk

Don’t really miss twitter at all but sometimes I long for the video I had bookmarked of a plasticine gorilla being thrown down the stairwell of a high rise building

Humphrey is my Gonk.

www.rollingstone.com/feature/davi...

David Foster Wallace on 9/11, as Seen from the Midwest

David Foster Wallace on Sept. 11, 2001, for 'Rolling Stone': Everybody has flags out — big flags, small flags, regular flag-size flags.

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Whenever I eat a can of something from the cupboard I think: would Defence Secretary Wes Streeting appreciate me depreciating the emergency stockpile like this?

Worth noting Banks is angling to be the Reform candidate in any North East Somerset and Hanham by election that occurs. This should be brought back to haunt him if/when it happens

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 4d ago

Now deleted racist tweet from Arron Banks, the Reform party candidate in the 2025 West of England mayoral election, and long term UKIP, Nigel Farage and Brexit backer.

London going to become somewhere it *really* isn’t safe to wear a watch because I’m going to begin a campaign of arm-breaking against everyone wearing one of these

Pop Crave@popcrave.com · 5d ago

Apple announces 'Live Rewind' for the new Apple Watch, letting users pull up the last 15 seconds of nearby conversation.

It's good that this story is getting attention, but it would be equally outrageous if the people whose doors were being hammered on actually were asylum seekers. It's not just a problem because they're international cricketers. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Group entered hotel of Pakistan cricketers mistaken for migrants

Protesters congregated at a Portsmouth hotel after false rumours that a coach of migrants had arrived.

bbc.co.uk

Committing seppuku in front of my colleagues for my embarrassingly poor place in the LFF queue

This is happening THIS EVENING in Clerkenwell and there are still a few tickets left! Sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/rita-hinde...

Yuan Yang@yuanfenyang.bsky.social · 2w ago

I’m honoured to be giving this year’s Rita Hinden Memorial Lecture for @renewaljournal.bsky.social, discussing what the “end of neoliberalism” means and the opportunities Andy Burnham’s premiership brings for fresh economic ideas. (1/2)

Justin Webb is an ideologue and his prominent position on the radio really is a major issue.

Did Kent Police ignore Dover blockade 999 call? We can reveal the story that undermines the public statement of Kent Police. 🧵

Feels like autumn, time to listen to every single Bert Jansch song on repeat for three months

labour government quietly effective factoid actually just statistical error. average labour minister actually incredibly useless. Ed Millerbind, who lives in cave & actually does 10,000 things with power each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted

At what point does ‘the masked men on the street have legitimate concerns’ and ‘Just Stop Oil/Palestine Action are terrorists’ become two tier policing?

Ed Miliband demonstrating that it’s possible to take firm action against illegal occupations by extremist thugs…hope his frontbench colleagues are listening!

Rewatched ‘We Are the Lambeth Boys’ last night — Karel Reisz’s Free Cinema doc about a Kennington youth club that aimed to dispel anxieties about rowdy sorting class teenagers in the 50s. Hadn’t watched it since moving nearby and was doubtful of Google’s claim that it was still open. But it is!

People of today claim to be hooked on short-form video yet they neglect the classics of the 1930s-70s British documentary movement…curious

Bro last night was a Natasha Brown novel (Clapton supper club where the Instagram chef two seats along from us spent the evening trying to chat up the girl next to him by extolling Thatcherism)

Sorry it’s fucking mental that for the last two years we’ve been carrying vicars and doctors into police vans for much less than this, but today our hands seem to be tied

probably nothing that yesterday Farage promised that he would basically declare martial law if elected and today there are masked thugs blockading ports just two entirely unrelated events. no I have not heard of stochastic, why do you ask

Andy Burnham preparing to release a reassuring and rousing TikTok about his favourite meal deal combination

If we’ve supposedly got such excellent, sophisticated, vigilant state security infrastructure I’d love to know where it was today?

HOPE not hate@hopenothate.org.uk · last wk.

🚨 BREAKING: Patriot Platform, a new far right group launched by Tommy Robinson’s right hand man Daniel Thomas (AKA Danny Tommo) has blockaded the port and several roads in Dover. The masked men are from subgroups of PP, including Sussex, Essex, and South East Patriots Here’s all you need to know.

I can’t *believe* we had to, still have to, listen to all that talk about how competent and ruthless Shabana Mahmood is, and then we get a day like today and we don’t have a Home Secretary

‘Masked paramilitary group occupies crucial port’ is the headline the media would go for if it wasn’t happening in Britain.

Went to Stratford for the first time today…physical, mental and spiritual experience of being a hamster whose cage is being viciously shaken by a giant cruel child